"Comical, tough, unsparing, it is as if Louis Auchincloss had exchanged the kid gloves for brass knuckles Interesting and nervy." --The Washington Post Book World

"Begley again demonstrates that he can reveal the complexities of society and personality with a clear eye and graceful style More than meets the requirements of graceful fiction." reTiree

Proud, traditional, and impeccably organized, Albert Schmidt is a buttoned-down lawyer of the old school. But now, after years of careful management, his life is slowly unraveling. His beloved wife has recently died. He stumbles--or is he being pushed?--into early retirement. And his daughter, his only child, is planning to marry a man Schmidt cannot approve of, for reasons he can scarcely admit, even to himself. As Schmidt gropes for resolutions, he finds unexpected hope in an intense passion that comes out of the blue...